It’s A Busy Life!

I forgot how busy the Spring and Summer time months can be on a farm. Yesterday, our day consisted of butchering and processing some of the meat birds we have raised, picking beans and cucumbers from the garden, making pickles, canning the green beans, making yogurt and cheese and somehow, Emma and I found [...]

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WOOO HOOOOOO…. SO exciting!

Last year Emma and I found a beautiful bi-color tomato in the garden that had the most amazing sweet/tangy flavor! The only thing is…. I have NEVER planted a bi-color!!
This was some sort of genetic fluke and we had no idea what plant it came off of.
I saved a few seeds from it and shared [...]

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Summer Fun (and some surprising news…)

Well, we have been super busy, as always, during the spring and summer months. Super busy in the gardens, and trying to have some fun since Emma and I finished her school work in May. We have been doing lots of fun things, including a trip to Worlds of Fun and Oceans of [...]

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SO glad it’s spring time!

I got about 1/2 an acre roto tilled, planted TONS of plants, and even had time to roast a goat!
Wild Blue Phlox from our field and forest… we have TONS of it, and you should smell it!! Smells like lilac!

Our newest garden!!

Some of the garlic in our “kitchen” garden.

YUMMY GOAT….

The trade [...]

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OUCH !!!!!!!!!!!

C’mon SERIOUSLY…. how does a normal hen lay THIS and still walk upright!?!?!?!? This is not joke, I found this in the barn yesterday!

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We are still hunter gatherers.

It is a great feeling knowing we can go out on our property and gather any number of wild edibles!
Kim makes an AMAZING soup from the dreaded stinging nettle plant.

I also harvested wild garlic, and some turkey
I am not one of those hunters that cherishes the actual kill. In fact it still makes me [...]

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“A rolling stone gathers no moss”

No Moss growin’ on the Pratt family!
Sometimes I look back at what we cram into our days and it makes me tired just thinking about it.
Kim got a new milking doe (Tinkerbell) I could take or leave goats, but “Tink” is really cute. It doesn’t hurt that she has a crush on me and follows [...]

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Working in the Garden – FINALLY!

It’s the first day of Spring today, and we have been working really hard in the gardens for the past few weeks. We decided to expand our garden from last year by adding a HUGE garden in another area of our property. So we will have two gardens this year, plus my herb [...]

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Emma’s Gingerbread Cookies

Yesterday, Emma decided to make Gingerbread Cookies. I knew she was “baking” something in the kitchen, so I let her have at it, and whoa was I surprised at the mess! She did it under the table in the kitchen so that I wouldn’t see her if I walked in there.

We [...]

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I Have Waited YEARS For This!

My husband loves me…he really, really loves me. Know how I know this? Well, I have had this crazy obsession to try a Durian fruit for years now. Unfortunately, you can only get them if you go to Asia. I have talked about wanting to try this fruit many times and [...]

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